FEEDING SYSTEM OF AUTOMATIC GRENADE LAUNCHER Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC F41A9/34 

FIELD: weapons.

SUBSTANCE: invention concerns military techniques in particular to the feeding system of gun-cannon armor installations. The feeding system of an automatic grenade launcher is established outside of an armoured unit tower and contains a container with a pipe and pivotally conjoined mouth of a grenade launcher casing connected using a pass thru. The system is supplied with a grenade supply sleeve, established between the pipe and the container, thus one end of the sleeve is fixed on the pipe with a turn of its target window against the pass thru of a mouth at an angle equal to half of a difference of angles of an eminence and decrease of a grenade launcher, and other end covers the container mouth. The container is established on an inclined surface of a tower stern with possibility of its fast replacement, and the pipe is executed with fastening possibility on a tower and with provision of axle coaxiality of twisting of a cartridge tape and own axis in its internal diameter. The rollers with possibility of rotation and interaction with a cartridge tape are established on the casing mouth and grenade supply sleeve.

EFFECT: use of the feeding system for small-sized towers without reduction of ammunition load.

2 cl, 3 dwg